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Anne's Latest News Updated January 2010

Hey everybody, 

I feel like I’m entering the confessional. I should probably be saying something along the lines of:

“Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned.  It’s been…*gulp*… 2 years and five months since I last updated my website.”

 Um…yeah. About that. Lemme explain. 

In June 2007 I was riding high.  My very first published story **ever** had been released by Amber Quill Press, to generally favorable reviews.  My spouse had back surgery and I stayed home with him for 6 weeks, intending to get the sequel out and maybe get started on some others. I committed to AQP for more stories (until recently, featured on my Coming Soon page,) and settled down to enjoy the ride. 

Then my spouse – my life partner, my best friend – got sick. 

He just wasn’t bouncing back from the surgery like we hoped. He felt tired & weak all the time, healed slowly, started dropping weight, and began suffering debilitating migraines up to 4 or 5 times a week. We went to doctors, then specialists, ruled out cancer and meningitis, and then began the absolutely horrid routine of going to see health specialists who don’t really know what’s wrong with you, so start prescribing stuff to see what helps.  Some meds made him a little better, some meds made him a lot worse, and nothing touched the migraines, which were of the “I’d almost rather be dead than suffer through this” variety. 

This state of affairs went on for, no kidding, eighteen months. By late 2008 he was forty pounds underweight, literally skin and bones, and not just housebound but bedridden. I was beside myself. 

Some people are able to use their writing as an escape, as a sort of therapy for the stress in their lives. Unfortunately, my well of creativity is tied in to my mental well-being. And between worrying if I was going to come home one day and find myself a widow, and staying on top of a truly insane work schedule (from whence came the health insurance), I couldn’t write a word for almost two years. 

Then a miracle happened. In a last ditch effort, we abandoned our normal primary care physician and found a holistic naturopath (a real medical doctor, yes, but one less interested in throwing drugs at us to treat symptoms and more interested in finding the actual cause of the health problems). After two visits, a series of really thorough blood tests, and about three hours of interviewing my spouse, she diagnosed that his migraines were caused by severe food allergies, which in turn were exacerbated by lead poisoning (he had scraped and painted our old turn-of-the century lead-paint-ridden house before we moved down to AZ). She figured his body had been handling the detox on its own until the surgery, then his immune system was too vulnerable and couldn’t handle the double job of detoxing him AND healing his back.

We changed his diet – no more dairy, sugar, or wheat flour.  He began a series of chelation treatments to remove the lead from his blood and tissues. After about six months of this, he hasn’t had one migraine, is slowly but surely finding his energy and his joie de vivre, and has regained twenty pounds.  

I got my soul mate back, and with it my will to write. 

So, yeah. I’m working on Loving Wolf, the sequel to Just Friends. And since I’m no longer constrained to a contest-entry word-count, you can expect all the stuff I wanted to get into in Just Friends to show up in Loving Wolf.

For Eli and Grant, falling in love was just the beginning. 

2008 sucked like a Hoover Wind Tunnel vacuum. 2009 sucked much less. 2010, I hope, will be a gentle exhalation, preferably through pursed lips and accompanied by a pleasing sound. 

Yeah,  I’m whistling while I work.  And provided AQP still wants my stuff, I hope that in the not-too-distant future you, too, will be whistling while you read the further adventures of Grant & Eli. 

Thanks for sticking with me, readers. You guys are the best. 

Anne 

January 8, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

JUST FRIENDS

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Reviews

Just Friends - June 2007 by Amber Quill Press

4.5 out of 5 from Miranda Heart at BDSMReviews, who says:

"Ms. Thomas has entered me into a life I never read about. The life of Male/male relationships. And I have to say, for my first m/m read, I'm impressed. I really liked the fact that these two are friends and Grant is aloof despite his feelings and Eli is trying desperately not to fall for the guy. I also haven't read a tale of two friends getting together in a very long time. It was a nice change from the usual."

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